Dr. Jubril Adeojo Co-Founder/COO, OneWattSolar, Nigeria

Dr. Jubril Adeojo is the COO and CO-founder at OneWattSolar Limited, a clean energy technology company in Nigeria. He has over 16 years professional experience covering investment and commercial banking, climate & green financing, development finance, blended finance, tech startup investing, business coaching, project finance, corporate finance, economics, strategic planning,... read moreagriculture finance, climate & sustainable energy finance, agribusiness, enterprise development, community development, financial inclusion and livelihoods co-creation and security, and funds raising.

His professional career covers working for Nigerian commercial and investment banks, one of the big four auditing firms, and a couple of advisory services to bi-lateral and multi-lateral development agencies on climate finance and sustainability finance matters in alignment with the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) of different African countries under the Paris Agreement for Climate Change. Jubril is a certified climate impact finance expert from the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management. He holds a PhD in development finance and community development from the Da Vinci Institute for Technology Management; MSc Strategic Finance from Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom; and BA Business Administration from the University of Hertfordshire.

A few pivotal projects and programs he championed include the issuance of the first ever corporate green sukuk in Africa, the 13th in the world, and first joint issuance of a bond and sukuk in a single issue, designing the $5 Billion Green Finance Sector Credit Facility Programme for the African Development Bank, and serving as the Senior Fund Advisor to the setup of the $2 Billion Nigeria Climate Change Fund (NCCF). Dr. Adeojo also led the consortium that developed the guidelines for mainstreaming climate action into the line of credit for the African Development Bank (AfDB) to extend to primary financial institutions across Africa towards achieving NDC targets by 2030 and Net Zero targets by 2050, and the setup of the $100million Nigeria Green Energy Programme in collaboration with African Guarantee Fund (AGF), a foremost pan African credit insurance companies in Africa. He is a Senior fellow at the Trans4m Center for Integral Development, Switzerland; Re-search Associate at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa; a member of Faculty of Green Bond Course of the United Nations University – Ghana; a member of the Faculty of Green Bond Course at X-Academy of Nigeria Stock Exchange Group; a pioneer member of the Financial Centre for Sustainability, Lagos (LC4S).